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As more and more robots start replacing humans, more and more humans will need to be paid a living salary because they will be unemployed. As more and more people become unemployed, they may end up clogging our freeways and highways while they go to the beach, or whatever, looking for entertainment. Eventually the working class will get tired of these human obstacles that are being kept alive by the working class' tax dollars and we'll figure out a way to get rid of the dead weight. Maybe ship them off to Mars. This will in turn fix the global warming problem. But we will have to go through the pain just described before we can start enjoying life again.
The reality is that we have been here many times before as science and technology have dragged us kicking and screaming into the future.
Look back when the horse and cart were replaced by mechanized vehicles and then the industrial revolution that put thousands of factory workers out of work replaced by machines, agricultural practices made the farm labourer and the horse extinct with the evolution of the tractor and mechanized food production.
There are so many examples of huge changes in the workforce over time, and we are about to go through yet another one, this time with a much larger global population.
I think I can guarantee that I have learned my lesson. I shall no longer reproduce. Happily, I know that my children, those that I know of, have done nothing dangerous to humanity, any others ... I dunno ;-)
Like I said, the ones I don't know of could have done anything. The ones I DO know of voted against Trump because they KNEW HE was dangerous to humanity. ;-)
Anyone who is laughing now IS laughing in the face of danger! We might as well laugh NOW, there will be plenty of time to cry later .... that is, if you are some distance from ground zero.
From my perspective is not so much that gravity is pulling/sucking me down... it is more like it is pressing down on me; it is pushing me down and keeping me down ;)
This is pure speculation, but I'm guessing that, as the cost of unskilled labor decreases (due to the replacement of employees by machines), the cost of raw/simple resources will decrease, which will in turn make said resources more plentiful/readily accessible, thereby increasing the general standard of living.
At the moment worldwide bots are replacing humans in the workplace I know two people actively involved in the day to day implementation of such schemes .
Interestingly the safest jobs in the future may be ones that require manual skills as in gardening , shelf stacking , restaurant work etc ,etc. as bots are not yet advanced enough to carry out these tasks .It would be most interesting to re visit the world in a hundred years time to see how much society is affected by these changes.
Transhumanism, all that means is downloading human consciousness into a robot. In a sense, we will all end up being transgender or agender because robots don't have genitalia ;)
The data worldwide is indeed confirming what I claim at the moment anyway , here is a snippet from an article in the Guardian ; my own brother is involved in the implementation of a scheme for a large multinational in replacing a large number of office workers with bots as we speak .....
Guardian .....
Last year, reporters for the Associated Press attempted to figure out which jobs were being lost to new technology. They analysed employment data from 20 countries and interviewed experts, software developers and CEOs. They found that almost all the jobs that had disappeared in the past four years were not low-skilled, low-paid roles, but fairly well-paid positions in traditionally middle-class careers. Software was replacing administrators and travel agents, bookkeepers and secretaries, and at alarming rates.
Economists and futurists know it's not all doom and gloom, but it is all change. Oxford academics Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A Osborne have predicted computerisation could make nearly half of jobs redundant within 10 to 20 years. Office work and service roles, they wrote, were particularly at risk. But almost nothing is impervious to automation. It has swept through shop floors and factories, transformed businesses big and small, and is beginning to revolutionise the professions.
Knowledge-based jobs were supposed to be safe career choices, the years of study it takes to become a lawyer, say, or an architect or accountant, in theory guaranteeing a lifetime of lucrative employment. That is no longer the case. Now even doctors face the looming threat of possible obsolescence. Expert radiologists are routinely outperformed by pattern-recognition software, diagnosticians by simple computer questionnaires. In 2012, Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla predicted that algorithms and machines would replace 80% of doctors within a generation.
In their much-debated book The Second Machine Age, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee argued that we now face an intense period of creative destruction. "Technological progress," they warned, "is going to leave behind some people, perhaps even a lot of people, as it races ahead … there's never been a worse time to be a worker with only 'ordinary' skills and abilities to offer, because computers, robots and other digital technologies are acquiring these skills and abilities at an extraordinary rate."
So where does that leave the professions, whose hard-won expertise is beginning to fall within the power of computers and artificial intelligence to emulate? The efficiency of computerisation seems likely to spell the end of the job security past generations sought in such careers. For many, what were once extraordinary skillsets will soon be rendered ordinary by the advance of the machines. What will it mean to be a professional then?
"We'll see what I call decomposition, the breaking down of professional work into its component parts," says leading legal futurist professor Richard Susskind. Susskind's forthcoming book Beyond the Professions, co-authored with his son Daniel Susskind, examines the transformations already underway across the sectors that once offered jobs for life. He predicts a process not unlike the division of labour that wiped out skilled artisans and craftsmen in the past: the dissolution of expertise into a dozen or more streamlined processes.
Oh, Guardian. That's one of the 3 publications of written journalism that I prefer (the other 2 being Economist and Hindu).
But you might also want to look at it from the other side, which doesn't think of it as dangerous or unnatural at large in detachment. And that's the transhumanist side. Especially the way I look at it.
"Interestingly the safest jobs in the future may be ones that require manual skills as in gardening , shelf stacking , restaurant work etc ,etc. as bots are not yet advanced enough to carry out these tasks ."
You mean, the very same labor jobs robots are predicted to replace in the near future?
The point I'm making and you're missing is the fact that the jobs being replaced at the moment are not the ones that require manual skills as in the jobs I mention but are more office related jobs that are now beginning to make workers in theses fields redundant .
Where did you get your information from ?
Here is a piece from the Guardian .....
Last year, reporters for the Associated Press attempted to figure out which jobs were being lost to new technology. They analysed employment data from 20 countries and interviewed experts, software developers and CEOs. They found that almost all the jobs that had disappeared in the past four years were not low-skilled, low-paid roles, but fairly well-paid positions in traditionally middle-class careers. Software was replacing administrators and travel agents, bookkeepers and secretaries, and at alarming rates.
Economists and futurists know it's not all doom and gloom, but it is all change. Oxford academics Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A Osborne have predicted computerisation could make nearly half of jobs redundant within 10 to 20 years. Office work and service roles, they wrote, were particularly at risk. But almost nothing is impervious to automation. It has swept through shop floors and factories, transformed businesses big and small, and is beginning to revolutionise the professions.
Knowledge-based jobs were supposed to be safe career choices, the years of study it takes to become a lawyer, say, or an architect or accountant, in theory guaranteeing a lifetime of lucrative employment. That is no longer the case. Now even doctors face the looming threat of possible obsolescence. Expert radiologists are routinely outperformed by pattern-recognition software, diagnosticians by simple computer questionnaires. In 2012, Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla predicted that algorithms and machines would replace 80% of doctors within a generation.
In their much-debated book The Second Machine Age, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee argued that we now face an intense period of creative destruction. "Technological progress," they warned, "is going to leave behind some people, perhaps even a lot of people, as it races ahead … there's never been a worse time to be a worker with only 'ordinary' skills and abilities to offer, because computers, robots and other digital technologies are acquiring these skills and abilities at an extraordinary rate."
So where does that leave the professions, whose hard-won expertise is beginning to fall within the power of computers and artificial intelligence to emulate? The efficiency of computerisation seems likely to spell the end of the job security past generations sought in such careers. For many, what were once extraordinary skillsets will soon be rendered ordinary by the advance of the machines. What will it mean to be a professional then?
"We'll see what I call decomposition, the breaking down of professional work into its component parts," says leading legal futurist professor Richard Susskind. Susskind's forthcoming book Beyond the Professions, co-authored with his son Daniel Susskind, examines the transformations already underway across the sectors that once offered jobs for life. He predicts a process not unlike the division of labour that wiped out skilled artisans and craftsmen in the past: the dissolution of expertise into a dozen or more streamlined processes.
This discussion is on the hypothetical future, not historical events. Obviously, software and machines lend themselves to duties revolving around the processing and management of data (medical diagnoses, data entry, etc.); the question is (as stated in the OP) whether they'll become a viable alternative to low-skill jobs.
Yes I'm aware of that I'm asking what are your sources for stating .....You mean, the very same labor jobs robots are predicted to replace in the near future?